 IOM recognizes the importance of communities to ensure the sustainability of reintegration also with regards to its psychosocial dimension. Therefore, sensitizing community leaders and other migration stakeholders about mental health and psychosocial support is key to a holistic approach to reintegration. In the past 12 months and with the support of GIZ, the German Cooperation Agency, IOM Ghana has built detection and counseling capacities, so contributing to an enabling environment for returnees to become fully functioning members of society. Robert Kettur, our psychosocial assistant, has so far trained 289 beneficiaries, of which 90 were women, in 17 sessions in many parts of Ghana, including a government reception and quarantine center for persons evacuated back to Ghana because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This training was really insightful. It's really expanded our knowledge base on mental health issues. I'm telling you, it's got some of the returnees in case when they come here. And we are really grateful for this. We'll be able to cater to their mental health needs, give them psychological tests even before they see the psychologist. That's how they have to understand their returnees, but in a nutshell, it's going to help us to help our kids. I'm Robert Kettur, a clinical psychologist with International Organization for Migration, IOM Accra. I am the psychosocial project assistant. I'm in charge of providing counseling for our returnees who have come back with psychological distress. Not all of them would develop mental illness, but some come with some form of distress and they would need support. So my work is to make sure that these people are okay and also have small group sessions for the returnees so that they are able to better cope with the situations they find themselves in. And finally also engage in capacity building for our stakeholders, implementing partners and community influences across the country. Migration, be it voluntary or involuntary, can put the life of an individual, the family under stress. Again, whether the migration is regular or irregular can have effect on the individual. How did you feel the first time you have to move from home to another place for more than a day? How did you spend your night? During the phase of migration that before during and after and even return, migrants react psychologically to the situation with fear and anxiety being common and this could result in the development of mild to severe forms of psychological distress, or the mental disorders, especially if not checked. Hence the need for mental health and psychosocial support is paramount, especially for migrants. Others may have to battle with issues of stigmatization and other emotional issues such as guilt. Some come back very traumatized because of the ordeals they have gone through using irregular routes. In IOM, we aim at providing holistic support to migrants that we work with. This does not only focus on the economic aspect alone, but goes beyond that to include the health and more importantly the mental aspects of migrants. We believe that availability and accessibility of psychosocial support and mental health care for all migrants, irrespective of their status and their host communities can contribute to their positive, social and economic outcomes for migrants, their families and the community at large. Health according to the World Health Organization is defined as a complete state of physical, mental, social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This means that for us to consider the health of migrants, we need to look at it holistically from the physical aspect, the mental aspect and even within their societal context. And when we talk about migration health, it refers to the well-being of migrants and their population, their families and the communities which they live in. So it's just like focusing on the whole aspect of the individual from head to toe. Why do we need to promote the health of migrants? Because migrants have rights and again, migrants, when they come, they have skills that they can contribute to their society. So if you don't cater for their health, if you don't look at their mental health and then we leave them on their own and then they develop severe mental illness, you realize that the skills they came back with, we lose those skills. Again, they will not be able to contribute to their society as they are expected to. Mental health refers to a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully and is able to make contributions to his or her communities. This means that for an individual to be mentally healthy, the individual needs to be able to identify the abilities that he or she has and able to cope with the normal stresses of life. Psychosocial support refers to actions that addresses the social and psychological needs of individuals, families and communities. We don't only focus on the migrant but we go beyond supporting the migrant family and communities. If you're able to help a migrant bounce back to life, we've supported their family, we've supported their community. The aim of psychosocial support is for the individual to be able to bounce back to life, especially after facing a crisis situation. Mental health disorder refers to any illness that affects the thoughts, emotions and behavior of an individual that produces negative effects on the person's life, the lives of their family members. So, until this illness is affecting the daily function of the individual, that person cannot be said to be mentally ill but then can be going through a distress. So, it's not all psychological distress that mental health disorders. Once you go through a distress, it doesn't mean that you are having a mental health illness. My name is Simon Kwache. I'm from Bajesang. I live in Italy. I live in Italy. I live in Oberkoho. I live in Germany. I live in Caterham. I live in Caterham. I live in Belfi. I live in Belfi. I have no family member, and I never said to invite you. I don't know if I will be able to inform myself through my phone. If I could call you back, just call me. Just call me in the driving naming form before you invite me. If you invite me, just call me in the vehicle store. So I was telling my brother that I love him so much, because I don't like the way he talks. So I told him that I was just going to be a bandit, and I asked him if he liked the way he talks. He said, but he said he loved me so much. So I told him that I was going to be a bandit, because he said he will be a bandit for me. And I told him that he liked me, so I told him that I like you. I have been here for a long time, every two weeks. I'm here because I feel like I'm the first to meet all of my family members. I'm here because I'm here because I feel like I'm here because I feel like I'm here because I'm here. It's the first time I've met my family. I'm Bless Mensa from Walter Regie. I traveled to Saudi Arabia 2016. I came back in 2018 and in fact it was very bad. My family, my friends, everything was not good. So I was informed by the IOM and I went there to see the counselor because I was having emotional problems. I can't sleep. I sleep at least not less than five minutes. Any little noise, my heart just got better and it's on and off. I'm always afraid after seeing the counselor about three to three months. He spoke to me, he advised me, I said from then I try to recover myself and the IOM support me financially and for now I am okay. When you are returning and they ask you to go and see a counselor, you shouldn't refuse it. It will take away the pain, the comfortability and it will take it away from you and it will make you feel better and you feel normal.